Attendances

[Perth Red]

Old balance between commercial outcome and creating perception of games popularity. If they’d halved the ticket prices would we have got double these crowds? Highly unlikely.

Given it’s poor northerners they could have done some geographical bundling options maybe?

same old blow outs don’t help either, lot of money to watch australia thrash someone.

likely to still be the third best attended World Cup in world sport. Not bad considering how small the game is.

 

[England87]

I think a more geographical spread in smaller stadiums would have massively benefitted ticket sales and interest in the event.

I would have to given York (8k), Bristol (10k), and a suburban London soccer stadium (15k - 20k) a few games each

 

[LeagueXIII]

The local government had to bid/pay for a game.

 

[LeagueXIII]

Old balance between commercial outcome and creating perception of games popularity. If they’d halved the ticket prices would we have got double these crowds? Highly unlikely.

Given it’s poor northerners they could have done some geographical bundling options maybe?

same old blow outs don’t help either, lot of money to watch australia thrash someone.

likely to still be the third best attended World Cup in world sport. Not bad considering how small the game is.

It's frustrating how Australia winning against smaller teams is seen as a negative whilst the All Blacks who have NEVER lost a round 1 pool game in Union World Cup history (31 in total) .Thrashing most nations including Japan 145-17 in 1995 is seen as great sport.

 

[Irish-bulldog]

It’s a shame we can’t fill stadiums, I think cheaper tickets in bigger nicer grounds helps with the event feel to attract people, you see it in Australia too, more people show up to the bigger better stadiums, it needs to feel like an event, some of these grounds in England look ducking terrible, not fit for park football

 

[Bulldog2020]

Hopefully this is proven wrong. But it might be like 2017 where upfront Government money has led to games not being played in the right places.

 

[Perth Red]

Hopefully this is proven wrong. But it might be like 2017 where upfront Government money has led to games not being played in the right places.

well nz where in rl heartland, that game should have got 10k easily. Rl fans are just lazy and would rather complain on social media about lack of crowds than get off their arses and take the family along to a once in a decade RLWC event.

 

[Perth Red]

 

[Northern]

Wait to you see the “crowd” at Doncaster. This just looks horrible.

 

[yakstorm]

 

[wain]

And they would have included super pool matches, as opposed to this years’! Still travelling better than previously.

 

[League Unlimited News]

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Hopefully there's no repeat of 2000 where there were crowds of about 1,000. Mind you some of the venues back then were played in Non league cities like Dublin, Edinburgh, Belfast, Reading.

 

[Billythekid]

I guess ultimately this is what matters. The main thing is that we see big crowds for the major matches because they’re the ones attracting the big viewership.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

Fair dinkum - can't complain about France v Greece in Doncaster on a Monday night. How many would that pull in Australia?
If you want to worry about crowds, start worrying about 2025 in France. That said, the WC has to move outside of Eng-Aus at some point (not counting 1954, 1972).

 

[Nuke]

I think this current one was the one initially given to the USA, wasn't it?

... or was it meant to be the next one?

 

[PARRA_FAN]

The next one was going to be Canada USA.

 

[Western_Eel]

anyone know what the TV ratings have been?

 

[Northern]

anyone know what the TV ratings have been?

Impressive World Cup television viewing figures for England's win over Samoa

A healthy audience watched on as England thrashed Samoa.

www.examinerlive.co.uk

 

[Billythekid]

Fair dinkum - can't complain about France v Greece in Doncaster on a Monday night. How many would that pull in Australia?
If you want to worry about crowds, start worrying about 2025 in France. That said, the WC has to move outside of Eng-Aus at some point (not counting 1954).

One can only hope that between now and then France actually get to play some international games particularly home games. It’s a shame because if the slate is just as empty the next few years it’s hard to see us building any excitement towards the international game in that time.